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Load-Sensitive ThreadPool / Queue in Java

Sat, 01/15/2011 - 02:30 — pulsar

Here is a little code-snippet (actually a ready to run jUnit TestCase) which might come handy if you need a fairly open ThreadPool not primarily limited by the number of active threads but rather by a predicted load factor. Latter one might be pretty much everything such as CPU load or a total number of "items" allowed to be processed by the whole ThreadPool at a given time.

If the predicted load is not dynamic enough for you, you might want to add another monitoring thread looking at some indicators (CPU, RAM, I/O) and adjust the LoadTracker's currentLoad value accordingly. Another path would be to skip the monitoring thread and extend the canHandle(load) method of the LoadTracker to respect the current indicator states.

Oh, and please let me know if I am reinventing the wheel, sometimes it is difficult not to.

In retrospect, same pattern could be applied to the Queue beneath the ThreadPool by coupling a LoadTrackableJob with a specific BlockingQueue. I guess you can always make the code / architecture prettier.